Scripts Quotes · Page 16

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

— Dirk Benedict

I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around.

— Christian Bale

When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.

— Samuel Goldwyn

I think you judge your career by the scripts that are being sent your way.

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

You pick projects for the part, the director, and the script. I just want to do different, interesting stuff.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I was drawn to gay parts because of their scripts, what the roles offered.

— Freddie Fox

Success is freedom - scripts coming your way and getting to choose the stories you want to tell.

— Rosamund Pike

It's very difficult to find good scripts in Hollywood any more.

— Ridley Scott

I don't know if I'm always going to be acting. Maybe when I grow up, I will be a scriptwriter. I already…

— Mara Wilson

I do love comedy, but I'm not brave enough to tackle a script whose goal is to make you laugh. That's tough.…

— William H. Macy

Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

— Michael J. Fox

If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain…

— Bing Crosby

Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing…

— Duane Swierczynski

A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors…

— Peter Mullan

My manager sent me the first two scripts for 'True Detective,' and I just thought they were so interesting and that the…

— Cary Fukunaga

The problem with independent films is that they can be hit or miss. I've seen scripts that have blown me away. But…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

I love reading different scripts and helping create different looks, different environments. Sometimes you go to meet a director over a particular…

— Roger Deakins

Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec…

— Terry Rossio

I don't think any actor has the luxury of knowing exactly what scripts are going to turn out well and what ones…

— Jonny Lee Miller

There are certain things that I will do viscerally to affect people emotionally, with speed changes and sound, and various other things.…

— Mel Gibson

The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing…

— Harrison Ford

It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time.…

— Blair Underwood

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I…

— Ang Lee

Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what…

— Jessica Lange

I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

— Faye Dunaway

What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

— Om Puri

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

— Linus Roache

I felt, if I never did anything in my life but read scripts and synopsize them, I would be happy.

— Sherry Lansing

The secret of making movies is having the strongest possible script.

— Harvey Weinstein

We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.

— Jonathan Tropper

I wish I was one of those people who could write script after script and pages and pages. I can only aspire…

— Fred Armisen

I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely...

— Phil Collins

For writers that rehearsal period is death. It is the most destructive thing of all to a script.

— Peter Stone

I am on the lookout for smart scripts and stories where my role has weightage.

— Rithvik Dhanjani

I've done about six comedies. Oddly enough, the script came to me from one of the guys in Platoon

— Tom Berenger

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

— Michael B. Jordan

I keep every script from every film that I ever made because it's like a workbook of that time in my life.

— Marguerite Moreau

I don't even give my scripts to friends because I just feel it's, like, I don't need one more set of opinions.

— Mike White

I always find it fun to read a script and then find the messages in the script because I believe every story…

— Shailene Woodley

If a script has that affect on me during a reading, then it is definitely a film I want to be part…

— Aamir Khan